From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: hyphenation & MIME wrapping
Date: 05 Jul 1999 19:38:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lfd7y7atec.fsf@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "02 Jul 1999 20:36:05 +0200"
Hi,
>>>>> On 02 Jul 1999 20:36:05 +0200
>>>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE said:
Kai> Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>> For example, pgnus treats MIMEish soft-returns ("=\n") wrong.
Kai> I thought that these were a way to send long lines via sites
Kai> which have some affinity to the eighty-column mindset? Please
Kai> note that often, the soft return comes after the 72nd (or so)
Kai> character, in the middle of a word.
Hmm, the usage I saw was to only do hard line-breaks only at paragraph
endings, and soft line-breaks where needed to stay under 76 chars
width. But obviously, this is not The Way MIME Intended It. I rest my
case.
Kai> See also `W w'.
This wraps the whole article, which is very wrong if tabular material,
C code, etc is included. Sigh.
Robbe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-05 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-02 13:41 Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-07-02 18:36 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-07-04 4:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-05 17:38 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
1999-07-05 17:45 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-07-06 15:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-06 16:17 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-07-06 18:55 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1999-07-07 10:02 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-07-04 16:10 ` François Pinard
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